While the first day of the long weekend was spent at Disney the last was spent climbing at central crags. I was planning to scratch up my new trad climbing gear (Link to flickr) but it wasn't to be and I ended just lugging the extra gear all over slopes. We started out at Central Crags East and Austin lead the nose, an F4 with decent exposure and great views (above). We then went looking for Bird Nest Crag with it's promise of two easy trad routes but after walking past a great looking bolted route and slogging halfway up a serious rocky slope we decide to go back and give it a go. On the way back we noticed a trail further to the west so we followed it to find to rather new looking bolted climbs. Nick lead the first a great climb up a slab, across a knife-blade arête and a high step over an overhanging section onto a hanging wall... Hopefully my description has conjured up some images, otherwise I'll get some photos next time I'm there. The second climb was a very short slabby type route that was more of an access route for what looked like a great potential trad route. As it was the end of the day and the route looked very dirty we decided to leave it but on returning home I find that it has already been climbed and at a the fairly amenable grade of F6a+... Looks like I'll have to save it for next time...
Later doodz,
Joe
1 comment:
next time? sorry yeah there's always a next time.
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